Hi Everybody, I would appreciate if lucene users could give me some advice about the project I am doing. I want to use lucene to index wikipedia and do searches on it as a part of my project. - Firstly, I am concerned about the size of wikipedia. Is it feasible to do it on a single machine with 1 GB of Physical Memory and 1.3GHz processor. Can lucene handle it efficiently. - Secondly, I wanted to know that when doing search does lucene load the whole index in memory or if the index size is larger than memory then would the search be significantly slowed down. - Thirdly, I want to pass documents as queries to wikipedia corpus, can lucene handle such large queries equivanlent to documents sizes, if not what modifications do I have to make. - Fourthly, would it be efficient to keep subsets of index on different machines and then distribute the query to all of them.
Any suggestions on how to improve the performance with lucene considering the problem I mentioned above. Thank you all, Zareen Saba Syed